The black samurai dude is already prevalent in Japanese pop culture. The folks going around saying that’s the problem are just confused and dumb. There’s no real issue there The issue lies in how things are portrayed that make the game look not distinctly Japanese, but more western “Asia wonderland”. I lived in Japan for over 10 years, I have Japanese family, so I pick up on some of this. It definitely gives the vibe of a Canadian studio did as much “Japan” ™ as they possibly could without having to actually go there or consult genuine professionals on cultural nuance or visual identity.

I say this as someone who has only seen promotional materials and not the game itself, though. So the game itself could prove me wrong. And I don’t care if you enjoy the game or not, I’m just sharing why it kind of turns me off.

TIL: “slams” = “warned”

Good luck getting all the boomers off there.

Sunglasses? No. Literally the opposite. Those marks are what happen to your face when you never take off your quest headset.

I don’t know what wolf warrior is and I’m kind of afraid to ask.

Imagine this kind of talk coming out of China.

Imagine training an AI of yourself and gifting it to your grandma to hang on her fridge.

Not even for the betterment of humanity would I dare venture into such places…

I actually miss the microblog integration on vanilla kbin, but I don’t think we’ll ever get that back.

I might just finally give up and settle on lemmy. There are a lot of really good apps for it these days.

Well I started on kbin.social, migrated to kbin.run…

Are there any other servers anyone would like me to ruin?